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I plucked the outer right rectrix, thereby inducing the growth of a replacement.
Her blonde weave, plucked and meticulously painted eyebrows, bandana, kitschy makeup, and attitude exude hip-hop's aesthetic.
Entire packs of grey wolves have also been plucked from the Canadian outback and released in Yellowstone Park.
Today, they have the world at their feet after being plucked from the streets of Greater Manchester to become international models.
The pink, slightly knobbly skin of this species of seahorse has been rather unkindly, but accurately, compared to that of a plucked chicken.
The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory.
Fur is in, as are eyebrows plucked razor-thin and yappy little dogs which you can carry around in your shoulder bag.
It's a virtuoso performance full of muted notes, plucked resonance, bristling clusters, elliptical melodies, rolled chords and tremolos.
They were plucked from the river, clinging to one another and a life ring, by members of the Humber Rescue lifeboat.
Do you actually think his daughters would be plucked from the front row of an Armani runway show?
It is probable that Fortunatus was here alluding to different varieties of the same plucked string instrument, essentially a lyre.
The bassist's fingers at times became a blur as she plucked away at the strings like a madwoman.
The only other essential instrument is the tanpura, whose open strings are plucked continuously all evening, providing an organ-like background.
She brought him the bottle of TCP after all the stings had been carefully plucked out.
He quickly noticed the bags filled with orchids, which had been plucked from his park by the lanky guy now standing near a flatbed truck.
He plopped several maraschinos into the dollop of whipped cream, then plucked one out.
He plucked James from the ground swiftly, then turned and marched quickly over to the shattered window.
He plucked several throwing knives from his baldric and placed the blade of a long-bladed knife between his teeth.
He is a sensitive soul, plucked from the intellectual nursery of theatreland, totally at sea in this tough, artless world.
She seemed more amused as her perfectly plucked eyebrows raised, a small smile curving her mouth.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Frosty had been plucked from his perch by a great horned owl, but he was lucky.
He sought also the free air and the sound of falling water, yet dearer to him than the plucked strings of sho and Biwa.
I was in the act of following him into the room, when Reuben plucked at my sleeve to detain me.
While two soldiers were loading the luggage, photograph apparatus and all, upon a small truck, Herrmann suddenly plucked my arm.
The boys tenderly sodded its mound and placed a wreath of holly, plucked from the hills of Creuse, where he last trained.
Fill your salad bowl with the crisp leaves, from which the flowerhead has been plucked.
You have also a right eye that I would have plucked out if I were in your place.
Then she turned to fly, but, quick as thought, the Saracen plucked at her robe to stop her.
As we passed through to supper, I plucked a spray of yellow banksia rose, and put it in my buttonhole.
He plucked the police whistle from his waistcoat-pocket, and raised it to his lips.
She had plucked a japonica from a tree near by, and was mechanically pulling it to pieces as she sat with her eyes downcast.
They belong to that family of bombycid, which envelop their eggs in hair plucked from their own body.
The Indian is kept poor all the year round and plucked of every pinfeather.
There, as he was saying good-by with a Chesterfieldian air, Tough plucked him by the sleeve.
Hands plucked at them toughly from all sides, and their pistols and few remaining grenades were taken from them.
Others, they plucked off all the hair of their heads and beards with pincers.
The polypoid mucosa occupying the sinus and the fronto-ethmoidal cells along the passage to the nose are carefully plucked away.
I plucked my first dandelion on a meadow slope on the 23d, and in the woods, protected by a high ledge, my first trillium.
He plucked a few of the ferns growing in the spray and discoursed on them, comparing them with the common European polypody.
She plucked still, but neither so ruthlessly nor so omnivorously as of yore.
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